November 12, 2023
Growing from Grief with Dave
Description
Attorney and sports aficionado Dave "OB" Obrand drops by the studio to chat with the guys about the highs, the lows, and the punk rock in-betweens of growing from grief after the passing of his father, Rick Obrand.
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Bio
Dave Obrand is a lifelong Southern Californian, growing up in Torrance, CA. After a brief stint at El Camino Junior College, Dave attended UCLA, where he obtained his BA in History, and where he also participated in UCLA’s rugby team and UCLA Unicamp, UCLA's official charity. After UCLA, Dave received his juris doctorate at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. After graduating, he worked as an attorney across multiple areas from education, constitutional claims, civil defense litigation, and professional liability defense and currently works for the County of Orange as the Deputy County Counsel. In his spare time, Dave enjoys spending time with his family, weightlifting, watching the Dodgers play baseball, and the Bruins do basically anything. He also maintains a collection of Los Angeles sports memorabilia and history, a collection inherited from his father Rick, a forty-year teaching legend of Carson Street Elementary School / multi teacher of the year award winner.
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What Jason Learned
Solo garlic is garlic that comes as a single clove vs. multiple smaller cloves
What Kelcey Learned
After Martin Luther King Jr's assassination in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy gave a eulogy speech in Indianapolis, which may have prevented the city from rioting.
Top Five Tips for growing from grief
  1. Reflect, remember, acknowledge, and embrace all the good and painful memories

  2. Reconnect to the things that were shared with the person you are grieving.

  3. Reach out to friends, family, and strangers who help you understand grief

  4. Define your purpose for the grief.

  5. Pursue your passions

Fact or Fiction: Asian American Edition
  1. Asians now make up about 6% of the nation’s overall population - FICTION, it's 7%

  2. In 1959, Hiram L Fong from Hawaii became the first Asian American US Senator - FACT

  3. Japanese American, Miyoshi Umeki, is the first Asian to win an Oscar (won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Sayonara," at the 30th Academy Awards® in 1958) - FACT

  4. The first Asian American focused sitcom on American network television ran in 1994 - FACT, Margaret Cho's "All American Girl" premiered in 1994

  5. Awkafina in 2018 was the first Asian to host SNL - FICTION, Jackie Chan hosted in 2000

Recommendations
  • Music: Punk Rock (Fiddlehead, Have Heart, La Dispute, Bad Religion)

  • Movie: Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison

  • TV: Seinfeld, the Simpsons, and South Park

  • YouTube Video: N/A

  • Book: Catch-22

  • Life Hack: Prepare the night before

Won't You, Haiku?
Remember good times
It gets better as time goes
RRRPP
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